Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺
@deepfriedsteve.bsky.social
Lib Dem 🔶 activist and electoral reform campaigner. #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPPR 🗳️ #FBPE.
This is an absolutely excellent book. If you want a glimpse of why the British news media is so toxic, and so unfit for purpose, I recommend reading it
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterdayI should take advantage of the opportunity here to say that I have a book. It’s sold considerably more than 106 copies but I would definitely like to sell some more and if you hate everything Braverman stands for, you’ll enjoy it. geni.us/BreakingMicW...
‘In fixating on the threat of “foreign” money, Labour has implicitly accepted that plutocrats can buy politics, so long as they are on the electoral roll.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Funding Reform
British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...
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Didn't realise the Guttergraph had journalists! All I see is a crescendo of increasingly unhinged opinion pieces
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayTelegraph owner poised to make newsroom job cuts in investment promise U-turn
Right yes, "protect are women" by preventing a long-planned fundraiser for Cancer Research... Bastards.
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · yesterdayPolice in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police trying to clear the way but the people of the East End got there first.
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It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
At the post blood donation lemon squash and biscuits table today, I chatted with someone who had overcome a lifelong fear of needles to make their first donation. I was so impressed. If you don't already donate blood, then please consider giving it a go. About an hour of your time could save a life.
You have to admit it’s fucking insane that party political broadcasts are legislated & regulated & policed but a sitting MP and political party leader has HIS OWN TV SHOW! And #Ofcom do absolutely nothing! #OfcomDoYourJob
A donation of £36M from one person is like almost 1000 people on the median salary donating their *entire pre-tax salary*. This is not right @andyburnham.bsky.social, and you know it. Why are you refusing to do something about our democracy being for sale to the filthy rich?
The UK land speed record of 403.1 mph (648.7 km/h) set by Donald Campbell on July 17 1964 has just been broken by a paper shredder at Reform UK HQ.
Protesters blocking a road is terrible! Except when it isn't!
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
NEW | On fascism on the streets and the front-pages… STOP THE BLOKES With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/stop-the-b...
Stop The Blokes
With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability.
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Left: Nigel Farage, "It was great (you picked up the tab for the poll), it worked, boom.. For a modest investment.. Amazing" Right: Nigel Farage to Laura Kuenssberg, "I frankly wasn't listening.. I was just there to say hello"
‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
Will there be 100+ articles written about him in the newspaper over the course of a week until he can't take it any more? Oh, silly me, he's white...carry on. 🙄
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
Oh look, "he's not wearing a suit". I'm no fan of Burnham or Labour. But this is ridiculous. Anyone can buy a suit. Trump wears a suit. Farage wears a suit. Any arsehole can put on a suit. But we have "serious" commentators crowing that someone isn't wearing a suit. Where is the reality check?
Disabilities don't start at 9:30 AM, and now disabled bus passes won't either. Huge credit to Lib Dem MP Tom Gordon and campaign groups like Transport for All. Their fight against unfair restrictions has led to nationwide change for fairer, accessible transport!
Reform’s plans would leave disabled people without the support they rely on.
“Reform should try telling nurses fainting on shifts, farmers losing their crops and people running from burning homes to enjoy the hot weather and see what reaction they’ll get.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/17/reform-uk-richard-tice-stop-tackling-climate-crisis-enjoy-heat
Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
Backlash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners in response to deputy leader dismissing efforts to reach net zero
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Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Anyone who claims that Solar Farms harm wildlife are ignoring the science. This study shows how a solar farm increased biodiversity by 41% whilst also allowing sheep to graze underneath. #SolarPower #ClimateEmergency www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/news/new-rep...
New report of Suffolk solar farm showcases ecological best practice | Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Pioneering 12-year study carried out by Suffolk Wildlife Trust at Broxted Estate & Solar Farm Suffolk demonstrates how renewable energy generation and biodiversity restoration can be achieved together...
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The founders of the Spectator, once a liberal magazine read by people capable of rational thought, are rolling in their graves. Now owned by billionaire & Christian zealot Paul Marshall, edited by the corrupt Gove & gives far right extremist fools like Delingpole a platform to spew their idiocy 🤦♂️
BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe last 11 years have been the hottest 11 years ever. That is a 0.0000000001% chance. (All taken from the World Meteorological Organization)
